Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA
Submitted by Gale Stroud and Burta Herger 26 Aug 2007
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Burns Margaret K 550630 p1
Services Held for Margaret K. Burns; Services were held Tuesday at Evans Chapel for Margaret Kennedy Burns who
passed away June 25 in Del Puerto Hospital after a lingering illness. She was born in Toronto, Canada,. January 6, 1887,
and graduated from Toronto schools and from the Connaught Hospital in 1909. A widow of the late Dr. Charles W.
Burns, she had assisted her husband in his practice in Canada until his death in 1924. She continued nursing for over 25
years, retiring and moving to Patterson in 1948. She was a charter member and the first Noble Grand of Century Rebecca
Lodge No 100 of Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan, and later a member of Santa Rita Lodge of Rebeccas in Newman. Surviving
are a daughter, Mrs. Thomas E. Jackson, and a grandson, Bruce Jackson both of Patterson; and two sisters, Lillian Wynne
of Philadelphia and Mrs. Mamie Griffith of Toronto, Canada. Pallbearers were Jack Stewart, Walter Lee, Vic Bowman,
Charles Del Nero, Douglas Webster and Joe Hochschild. Interment was at Del Puerto Cemetery.